I think there was a Safety Recall for that in the US.
Safety Recalls are forever; bring in your car (regardless of age) and they either do the recall or they have to buy the car from you.
I don't know what the laws are where you are.

Safety Recalls are forever; bring in your car (regardless of age) and they either do the recall or they have to buy the car from you.
I don't know what the laws are where you are.

I think would have trouble, the car was imported used from Japan. It is a 93 9000griffin.
I think any safety recall would not apply here.
But this is interesting. If you could tell me more about what they did to stop it happening again that would be great.

I think I said above I was thinking of taking the unit out and drilling a hole in the base so any condensation could seep out.
I am assuming it is condensation as the water was clean and clear. The base is aluminum with a steel top cover.

If you could tell me more about what they did to stop it happening again that would be great.

I just remembered it. At the time, I was a Shop Foreman at a Dealer. It was part of my job to keep track of that stuff.
I have a very good memory, but it was 17 years ago and I don't recall any more details...

I was thinking that could/would be a plan, and also some insulation above to save the unit getting, hot/cold.

On a trip for Christchurch to Riverton today (600km) it was damp on top of the unit when I got to Dunedin (350km) I dried it and when we got home (250km) it was still dry.

I think after using it for a while I will take the unit out and check inside it, and drill holes in it. I will see if I can get the Saab cover, which I assume is to keep hot cold air from getting to it.

Should this thread, with the recall notice, be cut and pasted into a topic for us poor 93 9000 owners!

I'm curious to know how a safety recall issued some 10+ years ago can still be valid or honoured now, particularly when the car model in question is no longer in production. It's the sort of thing which should have been sorted out at the time the recall was issued but I suppose it's not always possible to track down the current owner of every affected vehicle.

I'm curious to know how a safety recall issued some 10+ years ago can still be valid or honoured now, particularly when the car model in question is no longer in production.

The short answer is that it's US law (applicable only in the US, your country may vary).
There are several levels of Recall under US DOT regulations. The bottom rung is a Service Campaign, in which cars that happen to come in for service are updated (these Campaigns are often derided as "hidden warranties"). The next level notifies customers of the Campaign. Campaigns expire. The next category is Recall.
Recalls that don't rise to the level of a Safety hazard (defective paint for example) give you certain rights, but they expire at some point.
Safety Recalls are the highest level (Emissions Recalls are just short of this level), have mandatory notification requirements and never expire. If the Manufacturer claims that the car is too old, and cannot be repaired, they're required to buy back the car, rather than make you drive their fire-waiting-to-happen. Without that level of mandated compliance, the Manufacturers come up with one excuse after another as to why it's too hard for them to fix the dangerous, defective product they've already collected the profit from.

I am suspecting we do not have the same laws on this as you have in the US.

However, an experienced Saab Technician told me he had done hundreds of these in the 90s. The worst was when a car travelling over the Auckland harbour bridge 'went off' and tightened the belt pretensioners!

I guess lucky it wasn't the airbag.

Apparently Saab Austalasia are not interested in any car that was not sold new in their countries (NZ and Aust).